Re: Sony Memory stick format funnies...

Rogier Wolff
2001-04-29T20:04:11Z

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Followup to: <200104282236.AAA06021@cave.bitwizard.nl>
> By author: R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl (Rogier Wolff)
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > # l /mnt/d1
> > total 16
> > drwxr-xr-x 512 root root 16384 Mar 24 17:26 dcim/
> > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 0 May 23 2000 memstick.ind*
> > #
> >
> > Where the *(&#$%& does that "dcim" directory come from????
> >
>
> "dcim" probably stands for "digital camera images". At least Canon
> digital cameras always put their data in a directory named dcim.

Yes. I know. Seems to be standard. The stick is for my Sony camera.

However, the question is: how in **** is the Linux kernel seeing that
directory while it's not on the stick? (the root directory has one
MEMSTICK.IND file, and nothing else!)

Roger.

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